1st Edition 2020
Book
Hardcover, 21 x 28 cm, 308 pages, 97 illus
Language: English
Categories: Prosthodontics, Student literature
Stock No.: 22431
ISBN 978-0-86715-792-5
QP USA
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This book is a comprehensive prosthodontic treatment guide that outlines and explains the various aspects and possibilities of medical and dental treatment planning as it exists today. The content is logically organized in a step-by-step manner and addresses a wide audience: prosthodontic specialists, graduates and postgraduate students, general practitioners, and specialists in other dental fields. Topics include the goals of treatment planning, prosthodontic tools, first meeting with the patient, diagnostics and prognostics, intraoral and extraoral physical examination, types and structure of prosthodontic treatment, the writing of a treatment plan, and more. All clinicians who organize prosthetic and reconstructive treatments in their daily work will benefit from this book.
Contents
Chapter 01. Past, present, and future of treatment planning
Chapter 02. Treatment planning management
Chapter 03. Prosthodontic tools for treatment planning
Chapter 04. Data, findings, and dental semiotics
Chapter 05. The first visit – diagnostics
Chapter 06. Diagnosis and prognosis
Chapter 07. Physical examination – Part I: extraoral examination
Chapter 08. Physical examination – Part II: intraoral examination
Chapter 09. Main clinical examination assessment questions
Chapter 10. The type and structure of prosthodontic treatments
Chapter 11. Treatment planning analysis of complex rehabilitations, Phase I: Diagnostics, consultations, and emergencies
Chapter 12. Treatment planning analysis of complex rehabilitations, Phase II: Prosthetic and restorative treatment
Chapter 13. Treatment planning analysis of complex rehabilitations, Phase III: Posttreatment care and recalls
Chapter 14. Treatment planning for the elderly and those with challenging health conditions
Chapter 15. How to write a prosthodontic treatment plan
Dr. Lino Calvani graduated in Medicine and Surgery at University La Sapienza in Roma, where he qualified in Dentistry and also took his Certificate as Dental Technician with Italian and European validity at Maggiori Institute of Dental Technology. In 1983 he took his Certificate in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery of Face, Head and Neck at Scuola Medica Ospedaliera of Roma. In 1991 he took his Specialty Certificate in Prosthodontics and Operative Dentistry in the Department fo Prosthodontics and Operative Dentistry at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, Boston, MA, U.S.A., under the guide and Direction of Professor Gino Passamonti. Dr. Calvani is a Diplomate to the hard and prestigious American Board of Prosthodontics (ABP). Also, he owns his Master of Sciences in Applied Bio-Mechanical Engineering taken in 2009, to the prestigious Department of Bio-Engineering at Wolfson Center of Strathclyde University, in Glasgow, Scotland, Directed by Prof. Ing. Sandy Nikol. At the moment, he is a PhD Candidate in Biomechanics of Implant Materials in the Department of Prosthodontics at University Aristotle in Thessaloniki, Greece, directed by Prof. Argiris Pissiotis. Since 1997, he is teaching at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in Boston, and since 2005 as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Prosthodontics and Operative Dentistry in the Department of Prosthodontics and Restorative dentistry, Division of Graduate and Postgraduate Prosthodontics, Chair Prof. HP Weber, Direttore Prof. Hiroshi Hirayama, Dr. Kiho Kahn. Since 2002, he is Directing in the same University, in the Continuing Education Department, Directors, Prof. Van Zissi, Dr. Samuel Ruth, Courses on: 1 - Full Edentulous Mouth Rehabilitations: Complete Denture Prosthodontics; 2 - "Treatment Planning: The Challenges of Simple Cases and of Complicate Rehabilitations". In 2003-2007, he held the Position of Professor with a Contract in the Department of Oral Anatomy at the University of Siena Director Prof. Luciano Fonzi, Italy.